MSc Economics and Finance

During three years of UG at the University of Bristol, I found academic research in finance interesting and decided my future career in this. After careful consideration of several Master's offers (including MSc Quantitative Finance at the University of Manchester), I decided to stay here at the University of Bristol for the Master's, not only due to the contribution of knowledge in Economics to future financial studies but also because of the opportunities here. 

During this journey, it is my honor to chair as the President of the Bristol FinTech Society and represent all PGT Economics and Finance students. Together with the committee members of the FinTech Society, we attracted over 200 members to join the society and organized/co-organized over 20 events throughout the academic year. I made a clear strategic goal for society: contribute to the future of FinTech from Bristol. We developed partnerships with industry-leading companies.

I also acted as the research assistant for Professor Vincent Han and Dr. Alessandro Iaria (School of Economics at the University of Bristol) and for Dr. Yi Zhang (the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ)). During which I learned a lot and are beneficial for my future research in relevant areas.

A big update of this journey is that I developed my first academic paper "Who Value ESG More: Retail or Institutional Investors?" with Siwen Hao and Dr. Manuela Pedio (will be available online soon), which has been accepted by many distinguished international conferences including CINSC 2024 ICMA (UK), Economics of Financial Technology Conference 2024 (UK), the 2024 International Association of Applied Econometrics Annual Conference (China), the 2024 Chinese Economists Society Annual Conference (China), etc. But it is really a great pleasure to present the work to the public firstly at the 2024 BILT Student Research Festival.

Besides, I was also the Subject Editor (Economics) of the 2024 BILT Student Research Journal. The BILT student research journal stands at the front stage of helping the University of Bristol students get their works refined and published officially. As one of the subjects, Economics focuses on both theoretical studies that cut the edge of knowledge and empirical studies that aim to understand the practical problems in social sciences. The whole board (peer-reviewers and subject editors) are delighted to share that we have selected five of the most outstanding research papers from around 20 submissions. We aim to diversify the fields of selected research in traditional Economics and applied Economics areas. It is our commitment to share the most exciting original research findings, using theoretical and empirical methods, by students with all the readers.  

I was also the founder of the 2024 Bristol FinTech Festival (postponed) and acted as the Research Consultant for the WorldQuant Brain UK.